Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer (Volume 60) (Campaigns and Commanders Series)

By David J. Fitzpatrick

Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. His works--The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States--fueled the army's intellectual ferment in the late nineteenth century and guided Secretary of War Elihu Root's reforms in the early 1900s. Yet as David J. Fitzpatrick contends, Upton is also widely misunderstood as an antidemocratic militaristic zealot whose ideas were "too Prussian" for America. In this first full biography in nearly half a century, Fitzpatrick, the leading authority on Upton, radically revises our view of this important figure in American military thought.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080619636X
• ISBN13: 9780806196367
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"